Following an FTA with Korea, the EU now takes up the ambitious task of negotiating an FTA with Japan. Inarguably, "big" FTAs are the way forward in the search for growth, but in parallel, the EU should aim to diversify its regional outreach to rebalance trade accounts. In this sense, Taiwan has...

Taiwan is not part of the group of countries with whom the European Union is negotiating Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), or equivalent accords to free up bilateral trade. This paper, which builds on a 2010 study by ECIPE scholars on the potential gains from a EU-Taiwan free trade accord, argues...

Obesity rates in Europe have been growing at an accelerated speed in the past two decades. In the European Union, between 36.9% and 56.7% of all women - and between 51% and 69.3% of all men - are overweight or obese, according to data from 2008-09. Estimates on the growth of obesity suggest that...